Pharrell Williams talks Blurred Lines controversy: 'It wasn't sexual'

The singer - who co-wrote, produced and featured on the song - claimed that he wouldn't have allowed the female nudity in the accompanying music video if it was sexual.

Pharrell Williams in 'Blurred Lines' music video.

"There were lots of women who wanted to understand what we meant by those lyrics," Pharrell told Time Out. "But the two lines go: 'You don't need no papers/That man is not your maker'.

"Boom! Lyrically, you're done: there's nothing else to talk about. 'That man is not your maker'. Plus that treatment was written and shot by a female director, who's a feminist."

He continued: "Is it sexist when you walk around in a museum and a lot of the statues have their boobs out? The women in that video weren't doing anything sexual: they were only dancing.

Pharrell Williams

"Just because they had their boobs out, that was 'sexist'. I didn't do anything sexually suggestive to any of those women, I wouldn't allow it. I have respect and I know the message that I want to put out. I'm a fun guy'."

'Blurred Lines' was the best-selling single in both the UK and the US in 2013.